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The Rainbow Vegetarian Café in Cambridge, England, has announced that it will not accept the new £5 polymer notes, introduced by the Bank of England in September. Last week the British vegan community discovered that the notes contain trace amounts of beef tallow, which is animal fat, and are therefore unacceptable by their cruelty-free standards. A heated online controversy has resulted, including a petition asking the Bank to remove tallow from the polymer.
The Rainbow Café's owner, Sharon Meijland, told The Telegraph that her stance was announced last Wednesday, at the end of a BBC radio interview on the unrelated topic of Christmas food.
"We sponsor the Vegan Fair and announced on Wednesday we would not be accepting the £5 notes because they are dubious ethically. We have been providing food for vegans for 30 years and have tried to be as ethical as we possibly can...This is not just a restaurant, it's a restaurant where tiny details like this are really important."
Is any of our money cruelty-free?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by zugedneb on Tuesday December 06 2016, @04:55PM
...but wtf is all the hatered towards vegans?
it's jut people who decidede they do not want to have animals killed.
they do understand that agriculture itslef comes with "problems", but at least they should make them minimal...
compared to the world in large, it's not the worst type of people to come across...
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @05:08PM
It's like when people want to complain about Christians. They want to impose their morality on everyone else.
(Score: 2, Informative) by zugedneb on Tuesday December 06 2016, @05:19PM
ah, yes... idiot warning...
the vegan violence is unbearable...
no bear could take it...
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @06:25PM
Well, it's also because you know that 95% of them are just self-absorbed egotists who need to feel like they are one rung up on the morality ladder than everyone else. Check back on them in 5 years and they'll not be vegan anymore (though they'll try to admit they "sometimes" still eat vegan to try to save face, or insist that they still are, its just that they are not actively practicing because of such-and-such) and they will have moved onto the next moral fad. One could be active in a religion to get that feeling of self-satisfaction, but that actually takes a lot of work to maintain it (which is why everyone looks down on the loudmouthed Sunday-only moralists for being the hypocrites they are). It is a lot easier to jump from fad to fad when you get bored of the current one.
Remember how it was a thing, about 10 or so years ago, for young women to be lesbian or bi-sexual? Same thing. There are endless fads like this one could roll out.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by zugedneb on Wednesday December 07 2016, @12:56AM
u confuse general insight with the emperors new cloths...
i am a vegan, and it is based on the insight that there is a mind in an animal, and if can be avoided, then there is no need to end its existence.
other than that, i am a sane but not particuarly "nice" person...
old saying: "a troll is a window into the soul of humanity" + also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @06:39PM
What do you have against red? lol
IMHO there are two major factors that drive the hatred. First, the rather basic fact that anyone doing anything that's not in the established norm of society is to be ridiculed, mocked, and made fun of until the individuals doing it come around to a more sensible way of acting and thinking as society (rightfully) dictates. I guess we can say that some progress has been made, since we're not lynching or stoning these people anymore.
Second, since many of our plains states entire livelihood stems from the factory farming cattle industry, it only seems natural that they'd attack a lifestyle that doesn't require you purchasing their products.
Again IMHO, it's not the animal products in and of themselves that are wrong, but merely the way we currently go about producing the raw materials, and maybe who is producing it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @06:49PM
Its the hypocrisy and over blown media attention. I've got no problem with vegans, but ridiculous crap lime this deserves some mocking. Also, I have a vegetarian family member who feels compelled to mention the animal's death any time other people eat meat. I think many others are tired of this behavior and the frustration gets vented here.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @08:36PM
First, vegans have a particularly extremist and "unrealistic" perspective on the world. There are a LOT of animal products in the world, as evidenced by this article. To forsake them all is to literally undermine all of modern society. This would be fine, except that...
Second, vegans have a reputation for being very preachy. This may or may not be a fair reputation, but it is their reputation. They aren't only living by their code, they are very vocal about it to others and why they should convert. This is annoying, and hence people get aggressive against it.
It's somewhat like the backlash against hipsters, if you know about that. It isn't enough that you don't like "sportsball," you need to make sure everybody else know you don't like it and how they are inferior for buying into the mass-brainwashing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 06 2016, @10:54PM
Oh man, who doesn't like sportsball? Its the best one!!